Pleasant way to spend an hour or so on a Sunday morning. Part of the Next Wave festival, this is an 'audio tour' of selected works in the permanent collection of the NGV Australia by way of two or three minute ipod-ed audio tracks of ordinary punters' responses to the works in question. Some are funny, some are sad, one or two are quite insightful (particularly the one on the Albert Tucker beach/sunbather painting), and a handful are really off the wall. It's striking that the respondents tend to respond to the art very much in terms of their own lives and experiences rather than seeming to engage with it at all on the pieces' own terms or opening themselves up genuinely to what the works might have to say.
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(w/ Andrew B and Julian F)
